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Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Something's Brewing in China

A friend recently told me that he was happy to find Qingdao beer on sale at a small delicatessen in rural Oregon. This intrigued me because while you can find Budweiser (bai we) almost anwhere in China...Qingdao in America...I think not. So I did an informal survey and I found that (amazingly) Chinese beer can be found in many places....Amsteram (yes), Paris (yes), Tokyo (yes), Washington, DC (yes), Mumbai (yes). But apparently this has not been lost on others...as this article shows:

China has become an increasingly important battleground for the world’s leading brewers in recent years, a move which in no small part contributed to China overtaking the US earlier this year as the biggest beer market in the world. SABMiller, Carlsberg, Interbrew, Heineken and Anheuser-Busch are among the international players with a major presence in China, but one of them is on the verge of expanding its business there even further.

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Edward 'the bonobo' is a Catalan economist of British extraction based in Barcelona. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".

He is currently working on a book with the provisional working title "Population, the Ultimate Non-renewable Resource".

Apart from his participation in A Fistful of Euros, Edward also writes regularly for the demography blog Demography Matters. He also contributes to the Indian Economy blog . His personal weblog is Bonobo Land . Edward's website can be found at EdwardHugh.net.